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RADV Lands "Big Page" Optimization For Navi 2

Phoronix - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 19:03
It's not clear if AMD has provided the independent RADV Vulkan driver developers at the likes of Valve, Red Hat, and Google with any Navi 2 hardware yet, but they do seem to be making progress on this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver separate from their official AMDVLK open-source driver...

How to Setup Sublime Text sFTP for Remote Development

Tecmint - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 18:05

This article is the second in a series about sublime text and how to set it up for remote development using the SFTP package. I suggest you refer to our previous article about the

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GNOME 3.38's Mutter Gets More Optimizations - ~10% Lower Render Time In Some Scenarios

Phoronix - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 15:49
Even more optimizations have now been queued up for GNOME 3.38 launching this month...

Open ports and route traffic through your firewall

opensource.com - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 15:02

Ideally, most local networks are protected from the outside world. If you've ever tried installing a service, such as a web server or a Nextcloud instance at home, then you probably know from first-hand experience that, while the service is easy to reach from inside the network, it's unreachable over the worldwide web.


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Design a book cover with an open source alternative to InDesign

opensource.com - Wed, 09/02/2020 - 15:01

I recently finished writing a book about C programming, which I self-published through Lulu.com. I've used Lulu for several book projects, and it's a great platform. Earlier this year, Lulu made changes that give authors greater control over creating their book covers. Previously, you just uploaded a pair of large-format images for the front and back book covers. Now, Lulu allows authors to upload a custom PDF exactly sized to your book's dimensions.


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